Objective:To evaluate the clinical efficacy of retroperitoneal laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) in treating localized renal cell carcinoma. Methods:134 cases of renal cell carcinoma were reviewed for their diagnosis and treatment;the clinical data of 66 cases (group LRN) with renal neoplasm received retroperitoneal LRN and 68 cases (group ORN) with renal neoplasm received open radical nephrectomy were retrospectively analyzed. Results:There was no significant difference between the two groups about in age,sex,max diameter of tumor,tumor location,tumor stage and pathologic diagnosis (P>0.05). But for the clinical effect indexes,such as operating time,blood loss,recovery time of bowel function,hospital stay and complication incidence rate,the LRN group was sig-nificantly different from ORN group(P<0.05). The follow-up was 3~40 months.4 cases had distant metastasis;2 patients received im-munotherapy plus sorafenib targeted therapy and kept progression-free survival,while 2 patients received only immunotherapy,1 of whom died of tumor metastasis and 1 had tumor progression. Conclusion:Retroperitoneal LRN with minimal invasion and rapid re-covery,has a similar oncologic effect for localized renal cancer with traditional open surgery. Sorafenib targeted therapy should be pre-ferred for patients with post-operative recurrence or metastasis.